The prediction of the demise of b5media…
b5media doesn’t deserve $2 Million
Seems to me b5 has done a bit better than you imagined Nick :)
Might have been a thought to have quoted the positives rather than what you did quote in the VC’s article. This might have worked;
“I believe that the markets and the focus of b5’s increasing blogger ranks will continue to grow their respective authority and thus increase the networks value.
There are opportunities for new authorities on topics of all kinds to emerge and b5 is a great platform to bring those authorities to market.”
Certainly works better than;
“if someone …read more

Valleywag started it and there’s been some questioning along with some tongue-in-cheek criticism (check out Scoble’s “announcement”) and general commentary (check out some excellent comments);
Paying Bloggers Based On Traffic
How many of you are relatively new to blogging? How many of you understand how to measure page views? How many stats programs have you studied? Are there different levels of value for page views based on whether you are the blogger or the network? There are many, many questions surrounding this subject – too many to address in one sitting.
I’ve never met a stats program I didn’t dislike in some way.

Okay! Okay! I Get It! I Get It!
In order to get traffic you publish a ridiculous, inane commentary on a rumor.
Then you convince almost two thousand knuckleheads at Digg to digg your inane commentary on a rumor. Oy Vey…
The rumor? “A drunk employee kills all of the websites you care about”
“Someone came in sh**faced drunk, got angry, went berserk, and f***ed up a lot of stuff. There’s an outage on 40 or so racks at minimum.
Whoever it is, while we like how you roll in theory, in practice, we’d appreciate it if you laid off the servers running websites we …read more